Photograph
Nation's First Watershed Project Historic Marker
| The Nation's First Watershed Project historical marker commemorates the large-scale soil and water conservation project that began in Coon Creek in 1933. Standing next to the marker are, from left to right, John Bollinger, a farmer and planner with the Soil Conservation Service at Coon Valley, Dr. Hugh Bennett, retired chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Marvin Schweers, Wisconsin state conservationist, and Herbert Flueck, Minnesota state conservationist. Schweers and Flueck were both influential in the early years of the Coon Creek project. |
| Image ID: | 123273 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 19 1955 |
| Creator Name: | Wisconsin State Journal |
| City: | Coon Valley |
| County: | Vernon |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | State Historical Society of Wisconsin Historic Preservation Division historical markers file |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | 1975/191, Box 5, Fldr 26 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.75 x 3.25 inches |
| Photograph and information from "Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin," September, 1955. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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